ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,708, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).
"Gaming machine and method for replaying reels" was invented by Jayme Dale Sevigny (Nashville, Tenn.) and David Robert Marsh (Charlottesville, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine includes a display, a credit input mechanism, and a processor programmed to perform operations comprising: (i) determining, during a wagering game initiated in response to receiving a credit wager, that a replay trigger condition is satisfied, the wagering game including a plurality of reels; (ii) initiating, in response t...